You’re thinking of taking a cruise to Alaska. You’re envisioning scenery, adventure, getting pampered. You’re hoping it might even be romantic. Or maybe your elderly parents or grandparents have invited you to join their trip of a lifetime. Last year, a record 23 million cruise passengers set sail a...

When Todd Farnsworth of Anchorage and Palmer-based rock band The Quiet Cull began writing songs for the band’s first record, there was just one problem—there wasn’t a band. After a stint in a cover band, Farnsworth spent most of 2012 writing The Quiet Cull’s first album, Allegories in Rhythm, record...

Given Anchorage’s much-ballyhooed ethnic diversity—and the appreciation it has shown, both in the media and at events like the recent Polynesian Culture Awareness Day, aka Flag Day—there’s little doubt Anchorageites will thrill to the arrival of Common Kings at the newly opened Williwaw on Thursday...

The door opens at the side of the room and an unassuming man in a wide-brimmed olive green hat strides in. His quiet confidence echoes through the space, a meeting hall that has been covertly transformed with wood benches and vintage lamps into a Wisconsin cabin. He breathes deep, scans beyond the a...

I remember when India Pale Ales, or IPAs, were virtually unheard of in the beer world and none of Alaska’s few breweries made one. It wasn’t that they were unpopular; it just took a few years into the craft beer movement before a couple of American heritage breweries dabbled in a style resurrected f...